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Removal of Statues of Fidel and Che Guevara Sparks Outrage in Mexico - teleSUR English

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There is no force in the world capable of crushing the power of truth and ideas, said Cuban Ambassador Rodriguez. On Thursday, claiming to be responding to a request from residents in her jurisdiction, Cuauhtemoc Mayor Alessandra Rojo de la Vega removed the statues of Fidel Castro and Ernesto “Che” Guevara from the Tabacalera neighborhood in Mexico City. RELATED: Venezuela Greets Cuba on the Occasion of the Anniversary of Fidel Castro’s Birth “N…

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The removal of the statues of the late revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara and the former president of Cuba, Fidel Castro, installed on the bench of a square in the Tabacalera colony, in Mexico City, sparked a confrontation between the secretary of the Women, Citlalli Hernández Mora, and the mayor of Cuauhtémoc, Alessandra Rojo de la Vega. According to Rojo de la Vega, these monuments were removed from the Tabacalera Garden at the request of the…

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Mexico City, 17 Jul (EFE).- The statues of Ernesto “Che” Guevara and Fidel Castro, installed since 2018 on a bench in a plaza in the Tabacalera neighborhood, where they both resided in Mexico before the Cuban Revolution, were withdrawn at the request of the neighbors and for failing to comply with permits, said Thursday the mayor of Cuauhtémoc, Alessandra Rojo de la Vega. “Neither Che nor Fidel asked permission to settle in Cuba...and neither in…

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No more Fidel and no more Che. The bronze figures of the revolutionaries Fidel Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara, located on a bench in a park in the Tabacalera colony in Mexico City, have been removed on Wednesday due to irregularities present since its installation in 2017, according to the mayor’s report through a bulletin, and Mayor Alessandra Rojo de la Vega, on her social networks. “We removed them for three very simple and very clear reasons…

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Mexico, Mexico. Authorities of a mayor's office in Mexico City removed two sculptures of Fidel Castro and Ernesto “Che” Guevara from a public park, noting that they were placed irregularly, which provoked the reaction this Thursday of President Claudia Sheinbaum. The bronze statues represented the already deceased Cuban and Argentine guerrilla former president sitting on a bench in the capital and were originally placed in 2018, when the mayor's…

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The sculptures of the "Che" Guevara and Fidel Castro that were in Cuauhtémoc were removed. The Administration of Alessandra Rojo de la Vega reported that the withdrawal of the so-called "Monument Encuentro" that was in the Tabacalera Garden, occurred after neighborhood reports and after inconsistencies were detected in the file since its original placement in 2018. He stated that the figures will be protected. "According to the file reviewed by …

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udgtv broke the news in on Thursday, July 17, 2025.
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